I think the people I work with are getting progressively dumber. And it's not like I'm getting any smarter, so I was hoping others would pick up the slack.

Ugh. It's hot out again, which means we have to be subjected to fat women in tube tops. I understand it's hot, but how about a light cotton shirt that doesn't squish your rolls of fat together and show them off to the world. And guys, I know the rules are a little more lax regarding the no shirt thing, but still. Please take an honest look at yourselves and then put a shirt on, regardless of what you think. We think you're making us sick.

So today the talk turned to The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.

The array of guest stars on TLB was quite impressive compared to FI, but we all agree the stories on FI were better.

It's also amusing to note that on TLB if you see a black female guest star without an accompanying black male guest star (usually Sherman Helmsley) you knew Isaac was going to get some action.

It's like the writers thought, "Hey, Isaac hasn't hit it in awhile, better see if Shari Bellafonte is available."

I think it's a shame that in this new century there isn't a Love Boat or Murder, She Wrote to provide work for all the B and C list celebrities out there. I mean, sure, there's reality TV, but how many people can you cram into the house during The Surreal Life? What are we doing to make sure Florence Henderson is getting work to suppliment her Polident money?

I know supposebly isn't a word. It's one of the non-words that drives my friend Lola and I insane. Like 'irregardless'. Someone already took the title irregardless to use in their blog and I hope they are using it satirically.

We've spent the last two days at work talking about sitcoms from the '70s and '80s. Despite the fact that we weren't allowed to watch much television as kids, I know an awful lot about the shows that aired. We ended up talking about Diff'rent Strokes and one of the guys knew all the plots to the episodes while I was able to recall that Dixie Carter played Mr. Drummonds' girlfriend/new wife for only one season, to be replaced by Mary Ann Mobely. The other guy remembered there being a housekeeper between Mrs. Garrett and Pearl, which I was not cognizant of.

Bringing up Mrs. Garrett led into talk of The Facts of Life and once again, I know a disturbingly large amount of trivia about this show. I did not know however, that Natalie was the first girl on the show to lose her virginity. My supervisor knew that. I was able to recall the fate of "Edna's Edibles" (it burned down) and that they opened up a very trendy 80s novelty store in its place and that Mrs. Garrett went off to get married and was replaced by her sister (Chloris Leachman).

There was also a bit of cross-polination with the girls from Facts making a few guest appearances on Strokes.